Jagged Alliance 2 - Wildfire (215930)

[sknaumov]

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: "Jagged Alliance 2 - Wildfire"
• Steam AppID of the game: 215930

System Information

• GPU: Intel(R) HD Graphics 520
• Driver/LLVM version: 3.0 Mesa 19.0.8
• Kernel version: 5.0
• Link to full system information report as Gist:
• Proton version: 4.11-8

I confirm:

• that I haven't found an existing compatibility report for this game.
• that I have checked whether there are updates for my system available.

steam-215930.log

Symptoms

Game starts, I load a saved game, and when resume game clock from pause, it almost immediately crashes with any save I tried with 100% reproducibility. It started to happen immediately after Steam pushed new (4.11-8) proton version. Original problem report: https://help.steampowered.com/en/wizard/HelpRequest/HT-HGHP-PRPQ-C2P9

Reproduction

[kisak-valve]

Hello @sknaumov, please add PROTON_LOG=1 %command% to the game's launch options and check if running the game generates ~/steam-215930.log. If it does, please drag and drop the generated log into the comment box.

[sknaumov]

Updated issue description, attached proton log. With 4.11-7 (or whatever version was the latest proton in Steam up to Nov 9) the game was perfectly playable. The only inconvenience was that I had to manually fix CD-key issue that it not present in native windows or linux ports (but native linux port no longer works - see https://help.steampowered.com/en/wizard/HelpRequest/HT-HGHP-PRPQ-C2P9)

[sknaumov]

Update: Proton 5.0-5 (or earlier) fixed the issue with registration key (there is no need anymore to enter it manually via regedit like described here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/215930/discussions/0/1814296273132304445/). But the game still crashes as described in this ticket. I also tried all the other available proton versions (4.11-13, 4.2-9, 3.16-9, 3.7-8) and the game crashes with all of them.

On the other hand, I came up with a workaround - if I go to tactic mode, then back to strategic map, and only then start game clock, there is no crash (tried on 4.11-13 and 5.0-5). But again, this crash is not specific only to one saved game and started to happen immediately after proton upgrade.

The most problematic save game with 100% crash reproducibility is attached SaveGame07.sav.log - just strip .log extension.

The game has "native" linux mode and is shown in Steam as "supported under steamOS", but under the hood it is just a wine script. It worked fine on Ubuntu-16.04, but on 18.04 it ceased to work, that's why I'm trying to use proton.